TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gonaver,Wendy
TI  - The peculiar institution and the making of modern psychiatry, 1840-1880 /Wendy Gonaver
SN  - 9781469648453
AV  - RC438 .P438 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Discrimination in medical care
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; No peculiar strictness is observed: slavery and innovation --; As the eagle to the sparrow: enslaved attendants and caregiving --; Servants, obey your masters: religion and resistance --; Now she is choked: gender and violence --; So different: the asylum and the civil war --; Not a human being: reconstruction and racism; 2; b
N2  - Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the Unites States only after 1800, just as the struggle to end slavery took hold. In this book, Wendy Gonaver examines the relationship between these two historical developments, showing how slavery and ideas about race shaped early mental health treatment in the United States, especially in the South. She reveals these connections through the histories of two asylums in Virginia: the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Williamsburg, the first in the nation; and the Central Lunatic Asylum in Petersburg, the first created specifically for African Americans. Eastern Lunatic Asylum was the only institution to accept both slaves and free blacks as patients and to employ slaves as attendants.Drawing from these institutions'untapped archives, Gonaver reveals how slavery influenced ideas about patient liberty, about the proper relationship between caregiver and patient, about what constituted healthy religious belief and unhealthy fanaticism, and about gender. This early form of psychiatric care acted as a precursor to public health policy for generations, and Gonaver's book fills an important gap in the historiography of mental health and race in the nineteenth century; "Argues that slavery and race relations in the South shaped the theory and practice of early psychiatry. The book examines continuities in psychiatric treatment that provided for the gradual expansion of the state's power of involuntary confinement. The impact of these continuities continues to be seen in contemporary health practices for women, African Americans, the indigent, and prisoners"--
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2023713&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
ER  -